Undertaking a huge initiative like the "School Admin Virtual Mentor Program" (#SAVMP), I wanted to give leaders the opportunity to use technology to not only connect on a mass scale, but a more personal one. Seeing the opportunities that mass collaboration creates through the use of social media, I thought about how we actually use it to create a more personal connection with people. Many people that connect through the use of Twitter, blogging, etc., sometimes do not stay because they have not made any deeper connections with people in that space. There is no accountability to come back if you have not created that connection. Some people are more comfortable in an open space, where others are not. By helping to facilitate those connections, I am hoping that we create an accountability as school leaders to one another on a large scale by starting small.

The Ability to be Taught ““The one really competitive skill is the skill of being able to learn.” ~Seymour Papert ” I use that quote often in my presentations, because even though Papert said that 18...

Teaching or Learning? Is your school culture one that’s focused on teaching, or is it focused on learning? Depends on what you believe, right? If you believe that learning is measured by test scores,...

Most schools try to tell a good story about who they are, what kids accomplish while there, and what sets it apart from other places of learning. Very few schools, however, have a good narrative, and...

Richard Elmore said: The real argument is whether we want to develop a generation of people who have mastery of their own abilities to learn, or whether we want to perpetuate our obsession with training people to reproduce from memory what the...

“In an interview for Connected Educator Month, Powerful Learning Practice co-founder and CEO Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach talks about her experiences with professional learners and the communities and opportunities most impacting their work in classrooms...”

“Collaboration beyond borders! Showing our Prime Minister how Windows surfaca work in class Last week I was able to speak at both Ed-tech Norway Wednesday and Thursday to a smaller group of engaged people representing principals and publishers in...”

“There is much to absorb in this piece by the OECD’s education director Andreas Schleicher, but here’s the part that we need to all think about:The impact of technology on education delivery remains sub-optimal, because we may over-estimate the...”

Simple, Complicated, Complex The whole video is worth a watch, but I love this quote from a recent presentation by Dave Cormier: “As we’ve gotten more abundant access to knowledge, we’ve reduced the...

Technologies will have little to no impact on learning if teachers are not also provided with training and professional development.

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